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Senate Bill No. 160

(By Senator Sprouse)

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[Introduced January 10, 2008; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-29, relating to providing for a criminal offense for employers who facilitate employment of any employee to other intrastate employment when such employee is known by the employer to have had sexual relations with an individual under the age of eighteen years.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-29, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY AND DECENCY.
§61-8-29. Transfers for employment of individuals engaging in child sex offenses.

(a) Prohibition on the intrastate transfer of child sex offenders. -- Whoever, being an employer within this state, directs, causes, persuades, induces, or entices the travel intrastate of an employee with the purpose or effect of facilitating the employment of such employee with another employer, if the employer knows that such employee engaged in sexual conduct with an individual who was under the age of eighteen at the time of such sexual conduct, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or confined in a correctional facility not more than five years, or both fined and confined.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term "sexual conduct" means: (1) Any conduct which would constitute a felony offense against a minor under the provisions of article eight-a or article eight-b of this chapter; and (2) which occurred during the course of employment.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
provide for a criminal offense for employers who facilitate employment of any employee to other intrastate employment when such employee is known by the employer to have had sexual relations with an individual under the age of eighteen years.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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